Mrs. Brown had been a support to her husband through all the trials of his life since the marriage. David Brown spoke of his married life as “forty three years of cloudless sunshine.” A happy marriage indeed, and a picture of the love of Christ to the Church.

We have already referred to Alexander, David Brown’s eldest son. His eldest daughter, Margaret Dyce Brown, was married in 1860 to David Stewart, a wealthy and prominent Aberdeen factory-owner who was twice Lord Provost of Aberdeen, and would have been three times Provost if he had so wished. In 1895 Stewart ran for parliament, but was unsuccessful. He was knighted and lived at Banchory House, a secluded mansion on Royal Deeside.

The remaining daughters, Hannah and Meredith, did not marry, but devoted themselves to looking after their father in what Charles Wesley calls ‘age and feebleness extreme’. Meredith Brown eventually became involved in the Shaftesbury Institute in London, and Hannah Brown devoted herself to the care of her father, by this time practically blind and almost completely deaf.